The cholera years : the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 / Charles E. Rosenberg ; with a new afterword.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Charles E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cholera--United States--History--19th century.

Cholera.

United States--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian. In a new Afterword, Rosenberg discusses changes in

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part 1: 1832; I. THE EPIDEMIC: 1832; II. GOD'S JUSTICE?; III. OR MAN'S INJUSTICE?; IV. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION I; V. ALDERMEN AND CHOLERA; Part 2: 1849; VI. THE EPIDEMIC: 1849; VII. RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND PROGRESS; VIII. THE NATURE OF POVERTY AND THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE; IX. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION II; Part 3: 1866; X AMERICA AFTER THE WAR; XI THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF HEALTH; XII THE GOSPEL OF PUBLIC HEALTH; XIII CONCLUSION: THE WAY WE LIVE NOW; AFTERWORD, 1987; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612538841

9780226726793

0226726797

9781282538849

1282538845

9780226726762

0226726762

OCLC:

609856884

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05735 hdl